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Influences of Geographic Environment
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Title: Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Author: Ellen Churchill Semple
Release Date: March 8, 2005 [EBook #15293]
Language: english
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INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE BASIS OF RATZEL'S SYSTEM OF ANTHROPO-GEOGRAPHY
BY ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE
TO THE MEMORY OF FRIEDRICH RATZEL
Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light. MILTON.
PREFACE
The present book, as originally planned over seven years ago, was to be a simplified paraphrase or restatement of the principles embodied in Friedrich Ratzel's _Anthropo-Geographie_. The German work is difficult reading even for Germans. To most English and American students of geographic environment it is a closed book, a treasure-house bolted and barred. Ratzel himself realized "that any English form could not be a literal translation, but must be adapted to the Anglo-Celtic and especially
Influences of Geographic Environment
by Ellen Churchill Semple